The time for developing my own blog CSS from scratch has come to an end - I’ve switched to the Chirpy theme.

Rather than pulling a new Ethernet cable, I’m temporarily routing my WAN connection across two switches using a dedicated VLAN (setting up WAN-over-VLAN).

Continuing on from my last post about Configuration as Code in Jenkins, this goes in to a bit more detail on how I’ve configured ephemeral docker-based Jenkins agents (and the container it runs for my transcoding workflow).

I love that there is now a way to do Configuration as Code for Jenkins, but I hit a number of issues with escaping while trying to import Jobs. Come see what I tried and what did (and did not) work. This includes Ansible, but most of the problems encountered are related to Jenkins processing.

How I took an ESP32 powered matrix display, Toggl Track, and Home Assistant to create an ‘on-call’ light for my door